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2023: Oyo gov., Makinde denies presidential ambition

Oyo State Governor, Mr. Seyi Makinde, has insisted that he has no intention to contest for the office of the president or Vice President in the coming general elections in 2023.

The governor, who featured on Channels Televisions’s Politics Today on Thursday, monitored by Mega Icon Magazine, also denied plans to dump the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

He said, “no no. People easily forget how we got to where we are right now. For this republic, there has been President Obasanjo, President Yar’Adua, President Goodluck Jonathan, and now President Buhari.

“All of them, if you look at them, they were called. Some stakeholders got together and said, ‘look at this particular time, this is who we really want to use.”

Speaking further, Governor Makinde noted that President Buhari had vowed not to contest for presidency after he lost to former President Jonathan in 2011, but some stakeholders later endorsed him in 2015.

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